Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.6 MAC Under Varying Health Emergency Conditions

Farag Sallabi, Muhammad Adnan, Khaled Shuaib, Mohammed Abdel-Hafez

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Abstract

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) consists of health and environmental sensing nodes and a dedicated hub. The hub has more processing power and capabilities than the sensor nodes. It collects sensing data and forwards them to corresponding destinations for further processing and actions. In case of emergencies, the hub delivers the received data to the emergency department to take quick action. The end-to-end link between the sensor node and the emergency department mainly depends on the sensor node's bottleneck link and the hub. WBAN nodes communicate with the hub by accessing the physical communication channel in a randomly distributed fashion. Random channel access may cause retransmission of corrupted frames due to frame collisions. This causes performance degradation of the deployed WBAN. The IEEE 802.15.6 standard specified eight different user priorities for different traffic types. Among these priorities, priority seven is dedicated to reporting emergency and medical implant events. If several nodes report at this priority, this causes lower priority nodes to starve. In this work, we allow nodes to switch from lower priorities to priority seven in emergencies. We conducted several experiments to study the effects of priority seven on other nodes in normal operations and emergencies. The study results showed that the packet delivery rate is severely affected when some nodes switch from normal user priority to priority seven. More studies and investigations need to be conducted to determine the optimum operation of WBAN, especially in the case of an emergency.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IWCMC 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages388-393
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728186160
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event17th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IWCMC 2021 - Virtual, Online, China
Duration: Jun 28 2021Jul 2 2021

Publication series

Name2021 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IWCMC 2021

Conference

Conference17th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IWCMC 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual, Online
Period6/28/217/2/21

Keywords

  • CSMA/CA
  • IEEE 802.15.6
  • MAC
  • Performance
  • Sensor networks
  • Smart healthcare
  • WBAN

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Signal Processing
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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